Safe ground

Safe ground

Chris Walker, Chicago Tribune

Walter Kuhn, 95, from left, is delivered by canoe with help from his grandson John Kirpanos and friend Tricia Garrity, 77, to the home of Kuhn's daughter after Kuhn evacuated his home on Big Bend Drive which was flooded by the rising Des Plaines River in Des Plaines.

Walter Kuhn, 95, from left, is delivered by canoe with help from his grandson John Kirpanos and friend Tricia Garrity, 77, to the home of Kuhn's daughter after Kuhn evacuated his home on Big Bend Drive which was flooded by the rising Des Plaines River in Des Plaines. (Chris Walker, Chicago Tribune)

Walter Kuhn, 95, from left, is delivered by canoe with help from his grandson John Kirpanos and friend Tricia Garrity, 77, to the home of Kuhn's daughter after Kuhn evacuated his home on Big Bend Drive which was flooded by the rising Des Plaines River in Des Plaines.